[Christien]

I think most of the fear of shopping with a CC online is hype. I have about zero concern, and couldn't care less about "hacker safe" or verisign, or anything. I know that if a hacker wants my CC info, it's not hard to get. I also know that if there's fraudulent activity on my CC I call them, have them fax me an affidavit, sign it, fax back, and boom, it's gone. It's happened before, it'll happen again.

I think the only time I wouldn't give my CC info online is a site that looks like it's a scam, and about 90% of those are painfully easy to figure out. The only time I NEARLY got fooled was a scam email pretending to be from ebay about a question for an item I didn't have listed. I almost logged in, figuring someone sent the message to me by accident, but luckily firefox picked it up as being a scam site. They were phishing for user id/passwords obviously to make purchases through.